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fish caught may increase for a time, fish stocks are being serially depleted as effort transfers from one species to another, down the food chain. 6. Fishers also noted that when gasoline prices began to rise, several of them were forced to stay on land, as they were no longer able to obtain a catch sufficient to cover the cost of their fuel. Information obtained through interviews with Dennis Garbutt from EarthWatch Belize and local fishers in Monkey River, Belize, 2008. 7. Tourism is included in this analysis because of its climate-sensitive nature, the increase in tourism development in smaller communities, and in particular the increase in development of ecotourism. 8. Number based on estimations compiled from FAO databases. The number includes artisanal, inland fisheries, marine fisheries and all people employment in secondary industries such as marketing and processing. However, it excludes the vast number of unregistered fishermen. It is difficult to obtain accurate figures for how many people work in fisheries in the LAC region and worldwide, as millions are unregistered (see Allison and others 2009, 9). 9. Honduras is an exception, as it has a well-developed industrial shrimp fleet and is a major exporter of shrimp. 10. The study conducted by Allison and others (2009) included 132 countries worldwide. Countries were rated based on their possible climate change exposure, their economies’ dependence on fisheries, and their ability to adapt to climate change. 11. With the exception of shrimp, the large-scale industrial fleet does not fish shallow-water demersal species, such as those found adjacent to coral reefs. Rather they fish a few pelagic species far off shore. It is important to note that climate change and variability will affect demersal and pelagic species differently. 12. Information obtained from fieldwork in Belize in 2008. 13. Climate change effects such as rising temperatures may simply result in changing tourist seasons overall, for example, with the high season for travel beginning and ending later in the year. Not enough local climate data exist to be able to predict these possible changes and their impact (Ehmer and Heymann 2008). 14. This discussion splits the tourist industry into two categories: (a) primary tourist-related jobs, which are directly related to tourist activities, including jobs in hotels, restaurants, and wholesale and retail trade, and (b) secondary tourist-related jobs, including anything that may be affected by turmoil in the primary industry, such as construction, transport, communications and nonclassifiable jobs, usually in the informal sector. 15. The rapidly expanding tourist industry in the LAC region can be separated into three categories: (a) mass tourism such as cruise liners, (b) large scale “sun